The hero of Omaha Perez’s black-and-white graphic novel piss-take on the world’s greatest detective, Holmes (AiT/Planet Lar), is far removed from the familiar deerstalker capped brainiac we’re accustomed to seeing. This Sherlock Holmes is a half-crazed dope fiend more concerned with looking good in the press than in actually solving the case. Prone to paranoid [...]
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May
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Mar
Cobwebbed-houses and dusty stores dot the landscape in Bodie, an abandoned Wild West outpost high in the California mountains that has been frozen in time.
This eerie collection of around 200 buildings is one of the best examples of the many ghost towns throughout the western United States, evoking images of an era when prospectors hunted [...]
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Feb
Vietnam and Cambodia have long topped my “50 Things to Do before I Die” list. I got to see them both in one go, I reflect standing on a corner of Hanoi at 9am. The city rushes towards me on cyclos (rickshaws), motorbikes, even bicycles.
Everything is exotic, the lakes dotted across the city [...]
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Dec
The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling 452pp, Bloomsbury, %26pound;12.99The great swell of novel writing which peaked in the late 1850s and 60s has yielded rich pickings for literary pastiche, not least because what the Victorians merely hinted at, contemporary authors have free rein to fully realise. Peter Carey, Michel Faber, Sarah Waters and, [...]
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